- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Martin Luther King, Jr./SCLC Speaks: 40th Annual SCLC Convention Presidential Address, July 28, 1997
- Date of Original:
- 1997-07-28
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
African Americans--Economic conditions
African Americans--Social conditions
Meetings
Speeches - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- audiotapes
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- This audio recording features an episode of the radio program Martin Luther King, Jr./SCLC Speaks. In this episode, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) President Joseph E. Lowery delivers the presidential address at the 40th Annual SCLC Convention in Atlanta, Georgia. Lowery speaks to the question of "where do we go from here?" In his speech, Lowery speaks about the need for activism to move the nation forward on healthcare, improved labor conditions, closing the gap between the haves and have nots, and other social, economic, and political issues impacting America. A video recording of this presidential address can be found at: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:00413.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:01058
- Rights Holder:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Additional Rights Information:
- All works in this collection either are protected by copyright and/or are the property of the Robert W. Woodruff Library, and/or the copyright holder as appropriate. To order a reproduction or to inquire about permission to publish, please contact the Archives Research Center at: archives@auctr.edu with the web URL or handle identification number.
- Extent:
- 00:29:19
- Original Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:199 - Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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